Sam Oddie

Consanguinity is common in some communities, and it matters: Mortality, morbidity and educational outcomes in children of consanguineous parents in the Born in Bradford cohort, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-319…

Bees one (sting). Us: Sixty pounds of honey. Better than a points victory. In fact, our best ever harvest!

Please tell me you see/understand the connection.

@rcutler68 @campbellclaret Er… because he isn’t guilty of one? You just don’t agree with some of the things you think he thinks. It’s not more complicated than that.

So Farage dreamt up a conspiracy theory that turns out to be BS. All very Trumpian

Don't abstain! Don't cast a protest vote for a minor party! Be part of the change that's coming! Vote Labour on 4 July! 🌹

@PhilipDavies. I see there is now a press story about you placing an £8k bet that you would lose. Is it true?

@PhilipDaviesUK can you confirm you were not among those placing bets on the timing of the election?

Well, there’s a surprise

Wow. Here’s Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again: “I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly. I see an evil one. Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped. Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them. We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016. The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags. The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse. Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously. So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America: This is our last chance. Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator. And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided. So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them. Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

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@dralexscrivens Feel the freedom!

@SamOddie I am sadly considering doing the same. I have asked for a ballot paper 5 times now and still nothing. Don’t like the aggressive attitude of a lot of their comms either.

After >35 yy I have just resigned from the BMA. I strongly support unions, but appalled by the behaviour of #BMA. They seem to have done lots to maximise harms of strikes, and nil to improve lot of patients. And made being a doc worse. #relief to be out. #notpopularview!

BAPM is electing its executive committee, and lead for Data is one of the posts being elected to! Please consider voting for me for this role. bapm.org/pages/executiv…

BAPM supports the Race and Health Observatory's recommendations to improve newborn tests. Read about it here> theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

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@StephenPWardle Great news!

The long-awaited expansion of QMC NICU has been approved, giving sufficient capacity for care of the sickest newborn infants from the East Mids region. City Hosp campus will become an LNU. The new capacity will be available by the end of 2024 nuh.nhs.uk/latest-news/ho…

Danny is being polite - but spot on

It will be interesting to see a report from a centre using this test for non NNU admitted gentamicin treated babies.

Compared with use of prongs as the nasal CPAP interface, masks may reduce treatment failure and nasal injury, and may have little or no effect on mortality or the risk of pneumothorax in newborn preterm infants with or at risk of respiratory distress. doi.org/10.1002/146518…